Re: IFS handling and read

[Chet Ramey]

Lhunath (Maarten B.) wrote:

> Note that 'read' is a bash feature; not a POSIX shell feature.  In that 
> sense, "read" alone is limiting your "portability".  So portability in the 
> meaning of POSIX is out of the question.

Pardon me?  `read' is a feature of every historical shell and standardized
by Posix.  The bash implementation is a superset of Posix.

Chet
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